Wednesday, October 03, 2007

I Hate forwards

So I decided to post it here at least the people that are readying this site choose to come here :) I get allot of good ones but for some reason this one was especially entertaining!!


SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. 'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.'
'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.' A student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?' Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether computer' should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.
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The men's group decided that 'computer' should definitely be of the feminine gender ('la computadora' ), because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
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The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine ('el computador') , because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

The women won.

4 comments:

Kaela said...

Those kids are genius! This is so funny:)

Jaime said...

That is so Funny, I usually don't like forwards either but that one is cute.

Summer said...

That is so funny. Hi Shelbi, I hope you don't mind me seeing your blog. I remember meeting you a few times when I would come to visit Kaela in the Dalles..back when I was 14 years old. I love your blog header. It looks so nice.

Gramy Lynda said...

I honey, Im just browsing though your blog, again. I loved this one about the computer! It is really funny!!
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MOM